No offense to John Oliver, who was absolutely hilarious when I saw him perform his comedy routine at DC Improv. A lot of his jokes poked fun at what it's like to be a brit (read foreigner) in the United States. A lot of it rang very true. But I'm French, and I think it really takes a French comedian to relate to an audience full of French (and a few Swiss, Senegalese, Algerian, Moroccan, Quebecois...) people to get Gad Elmaleh's jokes last night. And not just because he performed entirely in French... I do feel bad for the one audience member (her name was Cathy) who didn't speak a word of French. She probably didn't think the show was that funny. But everyone else did. Gad's jokes about ...
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